An entire generation has passed since the election that installed Ronald Reagan into the White House. This brisk narrative fills a significant gap in the literature on recent U.S. history, making use of diverse memoir material, journalistic accounts, biographies, and specialized…
An entire generation has passed since the election that installed Ronald Reagan into the White House. This brisk narrative fills a significant gap in the literature on recent U.S. history, making use of diverse memoir material, journalistic accounts, biographies, and specialized…
"Right Face imparts the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national politics. Based on extensive archival sources, the book provides an analysis of the movement's intelle…
"Right Face imparts the story of how the American conservative movement in the two decades following World War II managed to move from obscurity to the center stage of national politics. Based on extensive archival sources, the book provides an analysis of the movement's intelle…
The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a…
Elliot Rosen's Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust focused on the transition from the Hoover administration to that of Roosevelt and the formulation of the early New Deal program. Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery emphasized long-term and structu…
American conservatism: an encyclopedia
"With contributions from more than two hundred leading scholars, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia offers information and insight on the major persons, schools, concepts, organizations, events, and publications that have contributed to the development of the conservative in…
American conservatism: an encyclopedia
by Nelson, Jeffrey O., Frohnen, Bruce, Beer, Jeremy
"With contributions from more than two hundred leading scholars, American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia offers information and insight on the major persons, schools, concepts, organizations, events, and publications that have contributed to the development of the conservative in…
"In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the 'radical right,' and discusses its adherents' different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Q…
Women's Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom. The field, partly due to its activist origins, is often associated with liberal ideology and is therefore chided by students and others who identify as con…
